Maybe I used the wrong vocabulary. It's not that he was having a bad day as in a depressive mood. It's just he had that smirk on his face the moment I walked up like, yeah I don't give a shit, don't bother me, kind of arrogant facial expression(smirk).

Everything was a one liner response from him and a smirk to go with it.

He didn't even offer to fix it. He didn't even push me to repair it or e even seem concerned at all. I came in with a problem and I'd like a minor diagnosis as to what's wrong?!

I was seriously hoping he would come back to me and say 'hey our tech looked at it and it does seem problematic. However in order for us to go forward and really disassemble the pieces, then we'd have to charge you $50 or $75, which of course could go towards the repair .'

However I didn't even get that kind of service!!! All he said was ' yeah, we looked at it, maybe it seems like the rail. PERIOD. End of conversation.

There was no comment about:

Do you want to fix it?
Do you want us to proceed to break it down and fix it?

I was prepared for an ass raping $$ repair which was fine. I got money.

But ,my seat still rocks. You offered no solution. Problem not solved..

I'm insulted by your comment. The service adviser's attitude that day was just he wanted to leave work or something and not give a rats ass about customer's issues.

Which is why I told the service director , why hire a guy who is not helping the dealership reap in some big $$$??? A seat for $1700 is a nice margin to be had....

So why didnt you just buy a new seat? I mean you have money so that isnt the issue here.

Instead of costing him his job in his first interaction with you I would have been a man and pulled him aside and made an attempt to rectify the situation after the fact. Not go home and hide behind my email.

You aren't bmw's only customer. Just because you drive a bmw doesnt automatically give you the holy grail of customer service.

I agree it was bad customer service but if you had spoken with the guy about his error and a 2nd time came around and the same issue arose then I would side with you.

This is a public forum, I've been here for years and I voiced my opinion, don't like it? There are other forums around.

I think you did the right thing by complaining. However, I don't think you should expect them to necessarily kiss your a** when you roll up. I want service with a clear focus on the job being done and complete attention to detail. No-nonsense in my opinion. I hate service that is overly chatty, social or up in my biz. For some reason this happens to me at the dentist. I want ultimate efficiency and I hate getting caught up in mindless conversation. I'm paying them to fix my car as expeditiously as possible and with the highest level of quality. I am not paying them to be my friend etc.

+1

I want the job done! Nothing more and certainly nothing less!

I understand OP! I work in the gastronomy sector... You have bad day could mean: Loosing your Michelin Star, loosing your Job or having to face Tripadvisor&Co...

I speak to people to find out - we all have bad days and while it shouldn't be taken to work, we are human. Perhaps a better way of dealing with it would have been to speak with him directly at the time.

I had a similar experience with someone - attitude and acted as if I did something wrong. I simply asked 'Did I do something to make you upset?' and she responded with a 'No', but still appeared upset.. so I followed up with 'Are you certain? Your demeanor towards me seems to tell me otherwise..' after which she said that she had another customer who was an ass, assured me that it wasn't me and then proceeded to apologize and she was like a new person.

We all have bad days.. and you can be guaranteed that some BMW owners who come in for service are jackasses who think they are better than others.

He didn't even offer to fix it. He didn't even push me to repair it or e even seem concerned at all. I came in with a problem and I'd like a minor diagnosis as to what's wrong?!

I was seriously hoping he would come back to me and say 'hey our tech looked at it and it does seem problematic. However in order for us to go forward and really disassemble the pieces, then we'd have to charge you $50 or $75, which of course could go towards the repair .'

However I didn't even get that kind of service!!! All he said was ' yeah, we looked at it, maybe it seems like the rail. PERIOD. End of conversation.

There was no comment about:

Do you want to fix it?
Do you want us to proceed to break it down and fix it?

I was prepared for an ass raping $$ repair which was fine. I got money.

But ,my seat still rocks. You offered no solution. Problem not solved..

GOOD, i'm glad you did what you did. young? new? if that were true he should be trying HARDER at his NEW job, i know whenever i start a new job i try the hardest to prove myself to my superiors. If this guy is new he definitely came into the job with way too arrogant of an attitude

GOOD, i'm glad you did what you did. young? new? if that were true he should be trying HARDER at his NEW job, i know whenever i start a new job i try the hardest to prove myself to my superiors. If this guy is new he definitely came into the job with way too arrogant of an attitude

I don't think you were wrong in letting the service director know about your experience..that's the purpose of those surveys and most BMW dealerships take those surveys seriously.

I recently completed a survey and it asked me if I got a free complementary car wash. I didn't think much of the question and answered it honestly in saying, "No." I usually like to limit car washing to myself so this didn't bother me. Within a day, my SA emailed me apologizing about the car wash and asking me to come in anytime for a free detail. I declined his offer since it wasn't a big deal, but it obviously was to them and it does reflect their rating to BMW USA.

Did you ever hear back from the dealer? I got an email from BMW asking me to evaluate a service visit. I gave the SA and the dealership good marks. At the end of the survey, it asked me if I had any other comments or suggestions for BMW engineers about the car itself. In that section, I wrote that the self-dimming mirror is way too slow to get dim, and that the garage door opener built into the mirror is also really weak because I have to be really close to my garage for it to open.

Next day I got an email from the service manager asking me to elaborate about my bad service visit, and I got an email from the SA himself apologizing for the bad service and telling me to bring the car in to get the mirror checked. Then I had to write emails to both explaining that I had no beef with the dealership or my last service call, I was just making a general complaint about the car. I felt bad that the final comments in my survey were taken as a complaint against the SA.